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Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
On the first day of high school, Kristina Ellis's mom, a single, working mother who lost her husband to cancer, informed her that she could not financially support her after graduation. Kristina would need to find her own way to pay for college. As an average student with less-than-impressive test scores, Kristina realized she would have to sell herself to scholarship committees if she wanted to stand out. That's when she devised the plan that led...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. Milo -- the front-runner. Natalia -- the brain. James -- the rule follower. Sydney -- the athlete. Duffy -- the cowboy. Emily -- the social justice warrior. The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded...
Author
Publisher
SuperCollege, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With information on online and part-time classes and new financial aid, loan, and scholarship opportunities, this updated resource teaches adult students how to find and win scholarships, get financial aid for online programs, receive larger financial aid packages, take advantage of educational tax breaks, and cancel education debts with loan forgiveness programs"--
Author
Publisher
SuperCollege, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A resource for collegebound students and their parents on college financial aid, scholarships, loans, and grants. Provides strategies for finding and winning scholarships, tax credits, asking for more financial aid, saving, student loan forgiveness, financial aid applications, state financial aid, military service, adult students, graduate students, and internships"--
Author
Publisher
SuperCollege, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"Provides 30 complete winning scholarship essays with analysis of why they were successful, scholarship interview strategies, Q&A with scholarship judges, 12 essays that bombed and an essay-writing workshop that covers selecting a topic, creating an outline, writing and editing"--
Author
Publisher
Prufrock Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Written by the parents of five children attending institutions at no cost to them. the Hewitt's use a unique organizational strategy that takes students and parents through the process of creating a game plan to fund their college educations by focusing on students interests.
10) Touchdown Kid
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sharing a love of football and life in a rough neighborhood, Cory and his best friend, Liam, are tested when Liam sustains an injury that costs him a football scholarship and Cory is offered his friend's scholarship and must learn how to fit in with his privileged new classmates.
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
'If you want to invent something nobody has ever thought of before, you need to read the things that others don't read, look in the spaces other people are not in...' Layla believes she was right to stand up for herself against a bully, but it's landed her a suspension - not the way she (or her parents) would have wished to begin her time at her fancy new school! This is just a setback though, and she's determined to prove that she does deserve her...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch. It comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch University in Halloweentown. Excited about learning alchemy and amulets, potions and portents, Marnie travels through the portal to become the University's most famous coed. But everything is not what it seems. There's a new school rule: No magic allowed. Marnie also learns about an ancient prophecy -- and it turns out she...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school"--
17) I am Kavi
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging, but everyday life must go on. At Kavi's school, her friends talk about the weekly Top 40, the Backstreet Boys, Shahrukh Khan, Leo & Kate... and who died--or didn't--in the latest bombing. But Kavi is afraid of something even scarier than war. She fears that if her friends discover her secret--that she is not who she is pretending to be--they'll stop talking to her. I want to be friends with these...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Halloweentown High: To prove that humans have changed since the "dark times", Marnie invites Halloweentown teenagers to her school. When an evil knight shows up to destroy all things magical, Marnie must save her friends and her own magic. Return to Halloweentown: By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch. It comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch University in Halloweentown. Excited about learning alchemy...
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically...
20) When pigmen fly
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before they can graduate, they must face their greatest challenge! Its the last semester at Redstone Junior High and Pixel, Sky, and Uma are about to enter into their most exciting adventure yet. Before they graduate, they must complete a bold and dangerous challenge: travel to the End and ride the notorious Ender dragon. From an accidental explosion in a remote village, to a treacherous storm and a teacher gone mysteriously missing, the students...
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